Victorian Current Acts

CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 464ZC

S. 464ZC(1) amended by No. 81/1997 s. 23 (ILA s. 39B(1)).

    (1)     If material reasonably believed to be from the body of a person who committed an indictable offence has been found—

        (a)     at the scene of the offence; or

        (b)     on the victim of the offence or on anything reasonably believed to have been worn or carried by the victim when the offence was committed; or

        (c)     on an object or person reasonably believed to have been associated with the commission of the offence—

and there is sufficient material to be analysed both in the investigation of the offence and on behalf of a person from whom a sample has been taken in relation to that offence, a part of the material sufficient for analysis must, on request, be delivered to that person.

S. 464ZC(2) inserted by No. 81/1997
s. 23.

    (2)     If material, reasonably believed to be from the body of a victim of an indictable offence which has not been found, has been found on a person reasonably believed to have been associated with the commission of the offence, and there is sufficient material to be analysed both in the investigation of the offence and on behalf of a person from whom a sample has been taken in relation to that offence, a part of the material sufficient for analysis must, on request, be delivered to that person.

S. 464ZC(3) inserted by No. 81/1997
s. 23.

    (3)     If—

        (a)     a sample has been taken from a child in connection with an investigation into an offence against a provision of Subdivision (8A), (8B) or (8C) of Division 1 of Part I; and

        (b)     that child was conceived allegedly as a result of that offence—

a person suspected of having committed that offence and from whom a sample has been taken in relation to that offence may request a part of the child's sample.

S. 464ZC(4) inserted by No. 81/1997
s. 23.

    (4)     A part of that child's sample requested by a person under subsection (3) must be delivered to that person provided that there is sufficient material to be analysed both in the investigation of the offence and on behalf of the person suspected of having committed the offence.

S. 464ZD inserted by No. 84/1989 s. 5, amended by No. 84/1989 ss 7(l)(m), 8(d), substituted by No. 129/1993 s. 7, amended by Nos 80/1998
s. 3(a)(i)–(iii), 41/2004 s. 15, 27/2006 s. 7, 3/2019 s. 59 (ILA s. 39B(1)).